Beautiful and Historic Borris
From Mount Leinster it is a short drive to beautiful and historic
Borris, seat of the McMorrough Kavanagh family whose ancestor
Dermot so impressed the Normans as to the beauty of Carlow
that they stayed for 800 years! Beyond Borris and Ballymurphy
one can enjoy the dappled splendour of the Blackstairs Mountains
as one drives to St. Mullins, the unspoilt jewel in Carlow’s crown.
Strategically set in a saucer of hills and surrounded by a delightful
dispersed village, the monastic enclosure holds together sixteen
hundred years of local and regional history
